Graphene has been considered as one of the most promising candidates for
future interconnect technology. In spite of the promising theoretical
predictions and DC characterization results about the excellent
current-carrying capability of graphene nanoribbons, experimental
demonstration and characterization of high speed signaling performance of
graphene interconnects is still very limited. Here we present the first
monolithic integration of graphene with commercial CMOS technology and the
first experimental demonstration of on-chip graphene interconnects that
operates above 1 GHz. We also studied the the dependence of high frequency
performance on graphene interconnect physical dimensions. Important physical
parameters like mean free path of graphene are extracted from experimental
data. We compared our experimental results with previous theoretical
predictions and gave experimental performance projection of on-chip graphene
nanoribbon interconnects with linewidth smaller than 100nm.

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